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The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)

by Edith Wharton

Published: 1999-03-02

Paperback: 304 pages

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Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced discreetly, but all of New York society was s...

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The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)

by Edith Wharton

Published: 2006-03-09

Paperback: 278 pages

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The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made it an instant classic, and it won the Pu...

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The Age of Innocence (Signet Classics)

by Edith Wharton

Published: 2008-03-04

Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages

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Edith Wharton’s masterpiece brings to life the grandeur and hypocrisy of a gilded age. Set among the very rich in 1870s New York, it tells the story of Newland Archer, a young lawyer engaged to marry virginal socialite May Welland, when he meets her cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, a woman unbound by...

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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

Published: 2013-06-22

Paperback: 296 pages

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Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, "The Age of Innocence", won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. Set in the high society circles of late nineteenth century New York, Wharton beautifully contrasts the intensity of true passion against the complacency of a loveless but proper marriage; delicately questioning the...

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Age of Miracles

by Karen Thomps Walker

Published: 2012-09-21

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'It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown...' What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day becomes night and night becomes day? What effect would this slowing have...

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The Age of Miracles: A Novel

by Karen Thompson Walker

Published: 2013-01-15

Paperback: 304 pages

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People ? O: The Oprah Magazine ? Financial Times ? Kansas City Star ? BookPage ? Kirkus Reviews ? Publishers Weekly ? Booklist   With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of ...

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The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

by Marianne Williamson

Published: 2009-04-01

Paperback: 187 pages

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The need for change as we get older—an emotional pressure for one phase of our lives to transition into another—is a human phenomenon, neither male nor female. There simply comes a time in our lives—not fundamentally different from the way puberty separates childhood from adulthood�...

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The Age of Orphans: A Novel

by Laleh Khadivi

Published: 2010-03-02

Paperback: 304 pages

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The boy wants nothing more than his maman’s lap and a view of the birds that soar over his Kurdish village. Nameless, impressionable, and watchful, the boy soon becomes a man in a mountaintop ritual with his baba, uncles, and cousins. And as a man, he must join the male villagers when th...

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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

by Alan Greenspan

Published: 2007-09-17

Hardcover: 544 pages

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In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good ...

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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

by Richard Holmes

Published: 2009-07-14

Hardcover: 552 pages

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A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping...